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Analyze an image

This feature returns information about visual content found in an image. Use tagging, domain-specific models, and descriptions in four languages to identify content and label it with confidence. Apply the adult/racy settings to help you detect potential adult content. Identify image types and color schemes in pictures.

Read text in images

Detect text in an image using optical character recognition (OCR) and extract the recognized words into a machine-readable character stream. Analyze images to detect embedded text, generate character streams, and enable searching. Save time and effort by taking photos of text instead of copying it.

Get started with the OCR service in general availability, and discover below a sneak peek of the new preview OCR engine (through "Recognize Text" API operation) with even better text recognition results for English.

Preview: Read handwritten text from images

Detect and extract handwritten text from notes, letters, essays, whiteboards, forms, and other sources. Reduce paper clutter and be more productive by taking photos of handwritten notes instead of transcribing them, and make the digital notes easy to find by implementing search. Handwritten OCR works with different surfaces and backgrounds, such as white paper, yellow sticky notes, and whiteboards.

Note: This technology is currently in preview and is only available for English text.

Analyze video in near real-time

Analyze video in near real-time Use any of the Computer Vision APIs with you video files by extracting frames of the video from your device and then sending those frames to the API calls of your choice. Get results from your videos faster.

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Generate a thumbnail

Generate a high-quality storage-efficient thumbnail based on any image, and modify images to best suit your needs for size, shape, and style. Apply smart cropping to generate thumbnails that differ from the aspect ratio of your original image, yet preserve the region of interest.

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"Using the Cognitive Services APIs, it took us three months to develop a test pair of glasses that can translate text and images into speech, identify emotions, and describe scenery.If we had been working full time, we could have done it in two weeks"